Ahead-looking: LG G collection and C collection OLED televisions have lengthy been praised as being wonderful for each TV viewing and big-screen gaming. Subsequent yr’s LG G5 set could possibly be even higher for players, having simply been licensed for a 165 Hz refresh fee at a 4K decision.
Each the LG C5 and G5 have been licensed on the market in South Korea forward of their official announcement at CES 2025, writes FlatpanelsHD. The world’s largest client electronics occasion takes place in only a few weeks (January 7 to January 11) in Las Vegas.
The entry in Korea’s Institute of Mechanical, Electrical and Digital Testing’s database confirms LG is sticking with its naming scheme for its subsequent technology of OLED televisions.
There are additionally images of the 2 units within the database. Whereas there don’t look like any main design adjustments, evidently the G5 will nonetheless use the brighter MLA OLED panel with a special anti-reflective answer.
What’s particularly attention-grabbing is that the LG OLED65G5 mannequin has been licensed for a 165Hz refresh fee at 4K decision.
The LG OLED TVs are fashionable with players for his or her options, together with VRR compatibility, Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), Recreation Optimizer and Dashboard, Dolby Imaginative and prescient Gaming, and low enter lag. In addition they supply 120Hz refresh charges, which was up to date to 144Hz within the 2024 fashions.
There’s at all times the prospect that this could possibly be a typo, however it appears unlikely because the mannequin in query has achieved a ClearMR rating of 10,000, up from 9,000 on the 2024 fashions with 144Hz refresh fee. As a reminder, a ClearMR rating is calculated because the ratio of clear pixels to blurry pixels throughout movement.
We named the LG C2 and C3 one of the best 4K HDR giant shows for gaming on this 2023 characteristic. We famous that the C3 gives unparalleled dimming and the flexibility to point out vibrant and darkish objects shut along with no blooming or haloing points.
The TV will get extraordinarily darkish for shadow element, reveals true zero stage blacks, and is able to vibrant highlights over 700 nits in actual world content material. It additionally has a shiny display with nice reflection dealing with which makes colours pop and HDR shine.